Children's Book About The Johnstown Flood. David mccullough has twice received the pulitzer prize, for truman and john adams, and twice received the national book award, for the path between the seas and mornings on horseback. Celestia falls in love with peter, a working class boy employed by the club.
The stunning story of one of america’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of gilded age america, brilliantly told by master historian david mccullough. Brimming with sensory imagery and cadence that breathe life back into the 1889 disaster, this novel in verse serenades readers with multiple, yet personal voices of youth depicting daily life in johnstown before and after the historic flood. Relief organizations, stupendous charities, with full accounts also of the.
The text and illustrations are well done.
Debut author richards alternates among several teenagers and adults whos Burg's requiem melts history into prose. The sweeping out of the conemaugh valley; Christina berwind and her family live in johnstown.